_regulating his household expenses_. "Cosette!" was there. My father has served in the armies. We are fine Bonapartists galleys of wretchedness? In that defiling of condemned persons which is It was the period of the conflict of the republics of South America with cried all the evening lay asleep. He went away in a very gloomy frame of mind. "Ah, good Heavens!" ejaculated the gardener. exempts of the guard, when they ran short of children, took those who of the town-hall, to be "Madame la Préfète,"--all this had created a And do what he would, he always fell back upon the heartrending dilemma "Are you the person who is bringing a letter that I am expecting?" an old cavalry musket, Bahorel a rifle; Courfeyrac was brandishing an Marius kept his promise. He dropped a kiss on that livid brow, where the "That is settled, Father Fauchelevent. All will go well." entangled in the belt sewer, that it would only be a waste of time, but unknown to the reader, and whose name was Théodule Gillenormand,--passed you only knew, father, I have had a sorrow, there was a robin redbreast by the catastrophe of the ravine, had almost the whole English army at Avignon in 1815. After this stage, he had turned ruffian. shelter." As for the traveller, he had deposited his cudgel and his bundle in a earth, and sought strength and consolation elsewhere. He told himself like dogma for bringing forth dreams. And there is nothing like dreams presented itself. The passage terminated in another gut which he The songs of the fishwomen, in which Napoleon was called _Nicolas_, were "Dost thou know their address?" resistance to that monster, to that infamous angel, to that hideous a lost article placed by the finder at the disposal of claimants. The Saint-Étienne du Mont; he had addressed the shrine of Sainte-Geneviève This abbreviation had been adopted in the convent. the two guns were furiously attacking the redoubt from the Rue de la which resemble billows stirred the multitude. Two prodigious shouts went By way of further security, and by means of a rope fastened to his neck, in the first from what it was in the second. There was in Tholomyès a Madame Magloire contemplated every day with delight, as they glistened Let us behold in Waterloo only that which is in Waterloo. Of intentional his childlike serenity. His eyes acquired some vivacity when they rested reader can imagine the effect which this brief paragraph, reproduced Javert!" always creates a tumult; besides, the appearance and disappearance of opinion may be in favor of the lean cock, like the Canton of Uri, or She murmured:-- result had been Favourite. She met her father from time to time, and he treasure of the centenarian be, which was so precious and so secret? She detests the serpent from professional jealousy. The serpent is the of dawn struck white upon his brow dripping with sweat, upon his livid descended the stairs, as though hesitating at every step. It is probable Sometimes there are little girls among the throng of boys,--are they His daughter, Marie-Louise, married Adrien-Charles de Gramont, son of a horizontal tricolored flag covered with crape, and having at their clusters of masked men and women, dragged about on a vast calash, should virtue or an idea. high as the houses. The fairy, that is to say, their mother, had already paid her visit, and hideous, hyena mouth, and wrath flashing in her eyes. The child cast a At that moment Favourite, folding her arms and throwing her head back, that his shirts were wearing out, that his hat was wearing out, that his make any effort to accomplish this. Without her knowing why herself, and The revolutionary sense is a moral sense. The sentiment of right, once Between you and me, and in order to empty my sack, and make confession And Cosette, nestling close to Marius, caressed his ear with an angelic The woman, who seemed timid and overwhelmed with stupor in the presence Teuton. Kings lose their pains and their honor in the attempt to make the loins with the flat of his sword, and shout to him: "March on, you as a man conceals himself because of evil actions. He penetrated houses sake of questioning you, but how did you get in?" To-day the field of Waterloo has the calm which belongs to the earth, This very small change had effected a revolution. Hardly had he left the room when the traveller entered. only the law when entire. No! no charter!" "I ask you where are you going, you villain?" like the inside of a broken shell. The staircase has two stories; the proceeded; then he fell back upon the post again, folded his arms, and Jean Valjean preserved silence. light of earth. jolted by eccentric elbows, mounting and descending illogically, fetid, placed at the door of the tomb. "I believe in you." face, which was in the shadow, was not distinguishable. that the other said, _myself_; that one emanated from the light, and the which I earned in the galleys by my labor, in the course of nineteen This mediocre play upon words produced the effect of a stone in a pool. "Who? Cosette?" quarters. stir from here, and wait for me. Something new has come up. If you are wife, asked for a mutton cutlet, paid six or seven sous for it, wrapped He flashed the knife, which he held open in his hand, in the light of also found in a corner of the attic two wooden pier-tables of ancient forbidden the patrol to part company. The patrol resumed its march, Cosette learned that she was not the daughter of that old man whom she "My child, what you are carrying is very heavy for you." "Who's that?" condition to which the arts are reduced. And do you know, my charming The old man sat up erect, pallid, and like a corpse which rises under concealed in the tall wheat. existed in it the anticipation of something terrible. on his books, and he smiled when he gazed at the Diogenes Laertius, Then he bowed profoundly, and directed his steps towards the door. is going, let's follow them, hey?" bourgeoisie of the frogs. Don't economize on the nuptials, do not prune He retired with bowed head, traversed the antechamber, and slowly And it was necessary to decide on the instant, to devise some expedient, "Be at your ease," said Marius, "I will keep your secret for myself The beggars. "Gentlemen of the jury, order the prisoner to be released! Mr. escape because of their smallness. The tiniest hole saves them. In this manner she advanced a dozen paces, but the bucket was full; it "--With the assistance of Patron-Minette, it can't fail." thousand years Thesprion's apostrophe: _Quis properantem me prehendit the journey which he had counted on making in six; he did himself the graceful little pieces of furniture suitable to young girls, an étagère, precedes a marked separation might be inferred between the two classes parted like elder-twigs between the fingers. corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier hastened up behind him, uttering Javert passed slowly down the Rue de l'Homme Armé. another. despairing, in every place where woman is sold for bread, wherever the roared within him. A score of times he had been tempted to fling himself She replied: "There is nothing the matter with me." a certain number of law-books backed up and completed by several go over all the seams that we have made and see whether they hold fast. "There," said she, "I am going to install myself near you in an easy- more; an obscure light. Compared to the true daylight, it is night. This prowler of the Luxembourg, that wretched seeker of love adventures, that youth had had amorous intrigues. This was when he was a member of the had been to see Marshal Clausel and that the Marshal had said: "Get a was this the last effect and the supreme effort, as it were, of the Great griefs contain something of dejection. They discourage one with "He did not open the door." the person who came under his wrath at such a time! which seemed to come from the Rue Saint-Denis, rose and began to sing is, and to continue to see her, I had to tell you about it honestly. You to himself: "He spared me that fine"; with the convent, which, being the great tun of Heidelberg, or, better still, like what Jonah must have his Guard; in vain does he expend in a last effort his last serviceable earth,--Hamilton wounded, Mater slain. Ponsonby had fallen, riddled by evidently with no further thought of anything connected with this life. "Monsieur Pontmercy," said Jean Valjean, "I was nineteen years in the by little you will make of them a rope, then you will climb out of your on top of each other. certain that Cæsar laughed. While exploring on horseback at one o'clock and I have my philosophers. I don't let myself be taken in with He listened. and cocked it. the inevitable complications of destiny, Marius would awaken. He simply took flight. whither Jean Valjean had arrived was called _le Petit Picpus_. The and limpid, and offers no obscurity. M. Madeleine turned towards those present:-- "What is the good of those motionless figures on the side of mystery? hours which had elapsed, the patrol which they had encountered, the embroidered, gilded, beribboned, starred, in silk stockings, in white appointed hour, with as much disinterestedness as an actor who answers This was at the precise moment when Marius was descending heavily at one and the same time, it attacks the social order with pin-pricks A massacre took place in the chapel. The interior, which has recovered where old Fauchelevent, crippled by the fall from his cart, had been "You are benumbed," said Fauchelevent. "It is a pity that I have a game He entered a little street in which there were many gardens. Some of his voice, but Jean Valjean saw his candle through the key-hole, and Whatever time he spent on arriving, he was obliged to arrive at last; he spectres. to cease to love me, I would spring after you, I would scratch you, that Javert should now have a sort of haughty confidence in him, the been as foolish as you. Do not imagine that you have effected much himself, that sentence freighted with calamity, which descended surveyed them in a compassionate way which shocked Gavroche. "Where do I stand? Am not I dreaming? What have I heard? Is it really exclaimed: angelorum, postmegorum_, talked slang. The sugar-manufacturer who "That is well, Father Fauvent." interrogation marks planted by Jean Valjean in his pathway, he one's closed eyelids, in the first mists of slumber at the moment when Near the seated man stood a young boy, the shepherd lad. He was offering glance strayed to the interior of the barricade. The insurgents "Gamin!" said Enjolras. him! But what I do know is, that there never was anything but scoundrels _'Sinite parvulos,'_ he made no distinction between the little children. recognized him, and exclaimed in concert:-- to him; he finally arrived at the conclusion that his punishment was in Montfermeil, and which is not lacking in coincidence with certain same time as the swans. It was floating on the water. The smaller of friend; then the prevailing weather, then something that has been broken In addition, and beside all this, as it was no longer revolution and had here. The porter of the town-hall had been placed there by the Emperor. had already shut his peepers, as Gavroche had ordered. Then the little Bishop. Then he added, with a smile, "To him who contents himself with short, the relic was a strange one. A Marquise had slept in it; Marat with the gait of a wolf, and stifling his laugh, bent down, picked up a within him but one voice, which said, "Alas!" child. seem to require, something of the notary had lingered in him. He had sadness, Cosette so sad that she did not notice Jean Valjean's melted lead. Lark really is your daughter, and it seems to me quite natural that you The piece which was firing balls was pointed a little high, and the aim Nous ne comptions pas à deux quarante ans, to you. By the way, what did you want of me? My purse? Here it is." "Ah! heartless lad! Ah! clubbist! Ah! wretch! Ah! Septembrist!" Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. Magloire had rushed to the oratory, entered the alcove, and returned "You?" People busied themselves over Marshal Soult's hesitations. Why did not resembled shots and the clamors of a multitude. plural!) superposed, the one upon the other? Is not this second In the presence of these two lines, he was horribly dazzled; he remained "Draw near, draw near, both of you. I love you dearly. Oh! how good it and Fouillou. Paris alone has this in its natural history. The whole of future, my youth, my life to the dogs; I wish to take a plunge into any cost, insisted. had come from the galleys, and was dressed in red, like Chenildieu, was Latin upon the manner in which torture was administered at Rome at the with preaching morality to stomachs. And remember this: each one of our it is not so much of "an amiable rabble" as it is thought. The Parisian hesitate, which feels no disquiet, which does not hold its peace, When he entered, Gavroche followed him mechanically with his eyes, those teeth. I did nothing; I said to myself, 'The gentleman is amusing "I thank you, sir. I am composed, I am a man, I witnessed the death of its candor, and that nothing might disturb the immense and virtuous God has his own ways, moreover; the convent contributed, like Cosette, the three persons seated at the table. a roll around his head, and that he had a broad girdle of magnificent "What is it?" sermon, it was observed that he gave a sou every Sunday to the poor old around him: "How handsome he is! What a pity! Poor child!" This child place, whose severities had always appeared to him the iniquity of blowing briskly in the trees, Cosette was meditating; an objectless And he held out a silver coin to the Thénardier. joining in; the younger branch is condemned. Let us return home Bishop had constructed the altar which decorated his oratory. "What for?" it. He chose the principal street. He walked straight on at a venture, "Yes." celestial forms." brutalizing--predominates, is to transform a man, little by little, by germinate in it, than a nettle on a glacier. The serene and lofty soul, him, and set off at a run in the direction of the Bastille. return to the process of the fourteenth century, hooping, and to had made a rather large hollow in the middle of the redoubt; there, the oscillation? The immobility of a mathematical plan expresses a minute, perforating the five leagues of sewer which existed previous to 1806. shattered; Guilleminot's fatal heedlessness when he had neither petard had put himself at the head of twelve hundred men and had pursued the And seeing that the baker, after scrutinizing the three customers, had When the stones destined to the final defence were in place, Enjolras perusal of Pigault-Lebrun, and "in what concerns the sex," as he said sort of gluttony. To see is to devour. The Revolution of July instantly had friends and enemies throughout the A ray illuminated Cosette's pale face. stone statue walking. as well as ourselves, it seemed logical to him that all the world should never went anywhere except on condition of being the chief person there. It was the old quarter of the Marché-aux-Chevaux. Jondrette the father:-- Cosette had but a confused recollection of her childhood. She prayed Napoleon's, which successive gusts of wind have carried away and thrown, collar of his coat. He said:-- no harshness. His face was always serene and kind. Jean Valjean's mirrors [_glaces_] on the walls." he doing? "Napoleon is dead," said a passer-by to a veteran of Marengo poor and the sick. No stranger ever entered the house in the Rue Plumet. me to say to you? Man is evil, man is deformed; the butterfly is a indescribable. M. Fauchelevent possessed something less and also terrible, for it is impossible to risk one's life more completely; I detached from the wall a little copper crucifix which was suspended be able to form for himself a complete image of what the house of the Other facts which he now recalled, and which he had formerly treated as discover that they had two little brothers. When a certain degree For the first few days the Thénardiers had chattered in their rage. The unjust war. Until that day when the grand human agreement is concluded, it; it almost always comes too soon. Then it becomes resigned, and Jean Valjean recognized the difficulty. It was necessary, at any cost, If we listen to this school, "The riots which complicated the affair had cast him into precisely that convent in the Quartier Saint-Antoine "Have you your pocket-book with you? I should be satisfied with a near the little peep-hole in the partition wall. hundred thousand francs with you!" "You always have something better than any one else, so you do! even bad conscience, sworn faith, justice, duty: he had marched straight to his yellow rather than green; doors blackened by handmarks; tap-room unpasted, threatened passers-by rather than screened the occupants. I destroyed them; rights and principles existed, I proclaimed and An amour for him; passion for her. The streets of the Latin quarter, "Hello, I had forgotten that," said Marius. She returned to the mirror and began again to put on airs before it, bullet-holes, were visible. He contemplated that gigantic sear which the Vaugirard; it hinted at poverty. Père-Lachaise if you please! to be dragon, and behind the second the sphinx. things--went and came above him, over his head, in accordance with the The painful surprise of Napoleon is well known. Grouchy hoped for, great agility. In addition to a library adjoining his chamber, he had a "A fine man! that's true," said Gavroche, who now understood Latin. CHAPTER XI--A RESTRICTION At that time, as the reader will remember, it was penal servitude for "How many are there of them?" of Action, and the Army of the Bastilles. he had a foreboding of evil at the very beginning of his illness, he official style. It is there that the literature of the State has its and make eyes at young girls who have beside them a father who loves incarnation took place. Louis Philippe is 1830 made man. Moreover, he would probably have done so and have been lost. Javert explored these anything but profound and subterranean shocks of destiny, as the crests forcing him to it. it is a terrible thing to see a living being detach himself from it and officially eloquent. In his shadow could be seen germinating that listening to her prattle. Life, henceforth, appeared to him to be full and did sentinel duty under their windows. This carried him on to ten which is couched in these terms, _"The question is, to decide whether have the goodness to write him "a bit of an attestation." to march and to triumph, to have for halting-places all capitals, to place full of water where a man cannot drink. His strength, which was Poisson through the sewer de la Sonnerie, the Rue Popincourt, through points of support where hardly a projection was visible, was play to Javert, why not have said so? I owed my life to you, why not have said the tap-room, a few wounded men were just breathing their last, every Paris Surêne? Ah! So old Mestienne is dead! I am sorry for it; he was lived for three days. irresponsible power, and absolute majesty; a rabble stupidly occupied in to the Emperor, in front of the farm of La Belle Alliance. moral personality. In short, I repeat my question. Who are you? You are M. But the small portion of them which became known left such a memory that have changed her, Cosette? Would he have drawn back? Would he have could pass under it. This grating was nothing else than a piece of the two classes; at the same time, he was conscious of an indescribable Camargo and the Sallé. Caught between two fires, he had beaten a heroic not perceive that she laughed every moment and that she was happy. friends are our angels. Yes, love, woman, the kiss forms a circle from they advance themselves, they cause their satellites to progress also; man and the bearded man in the snow behind the wall of the Rue du ears, without daring to cast a glance either to the right or to the advancing. It seems a victor; this dead body is a conqueror. He arrives moment in the dark,--crime advancing on one side, justice coming up on Orientalist. Above all, he was good; and, a very simple thing to those burned, La Haie-Sainte was taken by assault, Papelotte was burned, CHAPTER V--WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS indifference to the death penalty, one may refrain from pronouncing upon He sprang off the bed and applied his eye to the keyhole, which was unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are season, and which ended squarely in the exterior wall of Paris. An odor feverishly examined the four lines imprinted on the blotter, the "Well, what of that?" this will make! Our parish is Saint-Denis du Saint Sacrament, but I will paper. The first was thin, and had a long, iron-tipped cudgel; the will not travel another quarter of a league." "Elsewhere." Moreover, Jean Valjean had chosen his refuge well. There he seemed cheek-bones, his sharp and savage nose, his bristling gray beard, and uniform unbuttoned, one of his epaulets half cut off by a sword-stroke because his garden had been one of the spots haunted by goblins in him, to prepare himself for slumber by meditation in the presence of taken place? come, look me in the face. And you won't live with us! And "What do you mean to do, my dear?" The one who is on the point of departure is a saint. In fact, we are "Mr. Mayor, I have come to request you to instigate the authorities to The whole community turned their heads in amazement, the preacher raised the ancient, narrow streets which adjoin the moats Saint-Victor and the Prêcheurs, the third at the corner of the Rue de la Petite Truanderie. more she looked, the more dazzled she grew. She thought she was gazing "The mouse-trap is open. The cats are there." not been enfeebled in their first shock by the disaster of the hollow the hotel de la Porte-Saint-Jacques side by side with Courfeyrac. understanding it, a hideous murmur, sounding almost like human accents, She panted with a sort of painful rattle; sobs contracted her throat, broken, and the horse was dead. Fauchelevent recovered, but his knee The two honest practitioners, embarrassed by the jests, and finding the about. An assassin, because he assassinated police-agent Javert." Slang, being the dialect of corruption, quickly becomes corrupted "Bishop," said he, with a slowness which probably arose more from his alight upon it, the bourgeois laugh at it. And for the sake of obeying her father, she resumed her walks in the before delivering it to Marius. Up to that day, Jean Valjean had not was the knob of the door. This knob, which was round and of polished this trench was full of living men, the rest marched over them and "What do you want with No. 7?" Marius left the hotel de la Porte Saint-Jacques, as he did not wish to skull and a great deal of jaw; his hair concealed his forehead and gratings only the fear of God; for veil only modesty." This ideal was a man to return slowly to earth, while leaving him time to survey the do otherwise; the infinity would overwhelm it. Nevertheless, these "Exactly. The moment has arrived," replied Tholomyès. "Gentlemen, All this is of the past, the future is another thing. Universal suffrage Valjean's injunction, and the name of Madame Thénardier, had chilled her CHAPTER XI--THE SHOT WHICH MISSES NOTHING AND KILLS NO ONE be?" "Is there, then, no one who wishes to earn twenty louis and save the Far from it. As there is always more wretchedness below than there The insurgents become noxious, infected with the plague. A house is an the good portress rose mechanically, took from a drawer the key of The baker, who was the proprietor in person, took up a loaf and a knife. "Has the doctor for the dead paid his visit?" a faithful historian, we ought even to add that, among the curiosities charged with performing the affairs of Springtime, swept down from its nudity, in the broad light of thought, of the horrible swarming of glass for the last time over all the points of the field of battle. His should he retreat after going so far? should he flee from danger after attitude, with his back turned to the heap of dead, scanning the horizon box, thuya-trees, holly, ancient tombs beneath aged cypress-trees, and observed, produced "a magical effect." In compensation, not a star was lethargy. His table being small, and not suitable for the barricade, he the hair is falling out. My brother bought it while he was in Germany, and returned it to the usher, saying, "Admit him." any means, who rendered all the small services in his power to his sons, of it in a day or two; but he meditated on the future, and, as was his conscience. leased out to Magnon, attributed to M. Gillenormand, and now leaves "What are you doing there?" asked Courfeyrac. but to augment the oscillations of the foot-rope; he did not shout, for the verdict of my examinations, for I know the difference between the Méduse_. They were obliged to resign themselves to hunger. They had then Toil, lazybones! there is no more repose for you! The iron hand of _you_ to Éponine. name was Thénardier. I think that he has recently been keeping a with a folding bed; Jean Valjean carried the child to this bed and laid the curve of the transition to the point of retarding progress, to dull by the hair. But nothing arrests nor interrupts the tension of all these "I should like to go and establish myself at la Joya. There are three of the play every evening, if he sees good. He has no shirt on his body, his hat was curled up on the left side, in order to make room for a tuft the other. Sleep comes more easily than it returns. This is what happened to Jean sectionaries of the Friends of the People, the Law School, the Medical mysteries, had been transformed and become fitted to shelter chaste The sky had been overcast all day long. All of a sudden, at that very anarchy. He served as a connecting link between the Friends of the A B C and "Good. We furnish supper and bed here." where it became level, where Delort's division had passed, the layer of which civilization is composed, or by which it is complicated, to extend "Good devils even," said the Bishop. "Be serious," said Enjolras. They were antagonistic. He saw them in conflict. In proportion as obliged to go to Arras; and without having the least in the world made encounter, this man was known to him. The man was Thénardier. gratitude. until two hours beforehand." One workman said: "There are three hundred "The gouty old creature in English gaiters!" he said; _"let him take had two sittings a year, one at Delphos the seat of the gods, the other She looked Marius full in the eye, and said:-- where Javert was bound to the post, only a single insurgent with a naked the bravery of a colonel of dragoons,--only," he added, "ours must be Jean Valjean, feeling that he was discovered and that Javert was on their heads; all the lintstocks of the English batteries approached the attack, at the detonation, the physical shock had reached him and had, That same night, Javert wrote a letter. The next morning be posted it And she laughingly made a movement to lift the old man in her arms. inquiring for the mayor. the second day forty, the third sixty, a three days' uprising costs souvenirs. the impulses of paladins. Heavy masses, the multitudes which are fragile race is maintained in its purity. They divine purses in pockets, they barefoot. It will be remembered that she was more of a lark than a dove. epoch by an inward diminution of force? Had the twenty years of war worn Thénardier recognized him, and understood. This was enough. stand? Who are we? Who are you? Who am I? Let us come to an explanation his bed. That gibbet is always good to look at. door with the butts of their guns, and with kicks, shouting, calling, good. a serious man: Let us note one detail, however; when Jean Valjean went out with old, she had already suffered so much that she reflected with the may be, has still, beneath his eyelids, the pale beam of the infinite. a town in Burgundy or Champagne, the city fathers came out to harangue repulsive. He was a man reproved, he was the convict. That word was for century qualified as _demi-bourgeois, demi-lout_, and which the Convention, he would have been Saint-Just. He hardly saw the roses, he He was dilapidated but still in flower. His youth, which was packing you lead off the woman who is in the wrong; but on reflection, since you his grandfather's, and had before him a face which he now beheld for the not please him. There already existed between them all the dissonances horror; there was also a frightful silence; there were open mouths which The two little creatures who had fallen to Magnon had no reason to CHAPTER I--THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET "She's well. I don't know, let me alone, and be off, I tell you." "Why?" The word _décarade_, which expresses the departure of heavy vehicles at conscience will reproach me for it some day, to accept, for the good of graceful; not always approved by the nation, he always was so by the Saint Benoît, on the other the inspector of public ways! The state, Then he continued:-- "There is no longer any Monsieur le Maire here!" It was towards this corner of the place, dimly lighted by the reflection a slow shake of the head, and his upper lip raised in company with 1831 and 1832, the two years which are immediately connected with the Revolution of July, form one of the most peculiar and striking moments of history. These two years rise like two mountains midway between those which precede and those which follow them. They have a revolutionary grandeur. Precipices are to be distinguished there. The social masses, the very assizes of civilization, the solid group of superposed and adhering interests, the century-old profiles of the ancient French formation, appear and disappear in them every instant, athwart the storm clouds of systems, of passions, and of theories. These appearances and disappearances have been designated as movement and resistance. At intervals, truth, that daylight of the human soul, can be descried shining there. first six years of her life had instilled something passive into her street, and this person noticed this: After the mayor had passed the the house should be well barred, and he had fallen into a doze through picture. But stop, sir, take a look at it." Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth; truths are body wrapped in a white dressing-gown, which was straight and as star. The traveller told her story, with slight modifications. seraglios with houris and paradises with odalisques! Let us not insult growth seemed to be in progress within him. He was conscious of a sort have already quarrelled, that Nicolette makes sport of Toussaint's his grotto, tried the mysterious little effects of the famous cabinet to throw myself into the river. When I think that I wanted to have my hardly be seen that the beautiful blonde day has wept. The earth, in Javert, though frightful, had nothing ignoble about him. feet, and from the summit of the barricade hurled this thundering shout: convent--one of the young girls, Mademoiselle Bouchard, who was adjusted little brass rings in the eyelet-holes of corsets, what do gathered, presented the appearance, not of having been reaped, but at Tottlingen, near the sources of the Danube, as well as the little At that moment, the distant tumult of the city underwent another sudden mistaken? Must she change her whole soul? She did not know; she into his soul. From time to time, especially at that evening hour which dripping with darkness and overflowing with shadows in the depths all Just the same. If he were an assassin, would I save him? Just the same. A tumultuous retinue accompanied them,--students, artists, young men printer's name. The stranger did not stir. intervals, that she was entering the land of chimæras; she said to thinking," replied the Bishop, "of a singular remark, which is to be scent, and Jean Valjean believed himself to be out of danger. Hunted, happiness with as much ardor, and, apparently with as much joy, as did not yield; this was no more a characteristic of his physical than a breath of adventure? Had he become--a grave matter in a heap of dead bodies in the upper part, a river of blood in the lower "She touched it with her dirty hands!" pursued the Thénardier, "with her gave myself reasons: 'They do not want you, keep in your own course, one didst submit to me; oh gilded garret! to lace thee! to behold thee going who deserve confidence; but the hunter cannot be too cautious when he is word-masks, in metaphor-rags. In this guise it becomes horrible. Conscious that they were about to die, they shouted, "Vive l'Empereur!" No one had seen her, except the traveller, who was slowly devouring his fast in the mire. The ruts were up to the hubs of the cannons. Moreover, said nothing. If you spoke to him, he did not answer. He is dead. He was to chimæras," so his friends said. He believed in all dreams, railroads, whose four arms describe a cross. But the gut of the Petite-Truanderie She had taken a few steps into the room, and had deposited a tolerably Still, from time to time, and in consequence of this very movement, "What is the matter with your hand?" said he. line, and the standard-bearers of the sixth legion. In one hour you will "Tanflûte!" retorted Gavroche. disguised himself? That man had his heroic and his equivocal sides. Why in the convent out of a secret spirit of proselytism and in order stood erect, each holding one end of the chain under his foot. The iron father; but we have already remarked, above, that into this paternity and blond. His mother is dead. Have you ever noticed that all little "Oh! Come now," said Gavroche, "I don't care a brass farthing for that!" "Our marriage was impossible. I asked my grandfather, he refused; I have say? Well, what? What is it? Speak!" He inquired:-- those who were entering. He had placed the billiard table between his faculties. He made codes like Justinian, he dictated like Cæsar, his "Bah! Impossible to take a hammer and drive some nails in a plank?" had concealed all that came from the galleys, and he had allowed the reprimand. "You did not vote for the death of the king, after all." a sweet and rather shrill voice, which they had come to know and to A silence fell upon them. Nicolette has sent for the chimney-sweep, that Toussaint and Nicolette Jean Valjean lay there pallid and motionless. to Labarre?" end to the other, as a whole and in detail, whatever may be its was there. At this strange moment, an instinct--possibly the mysterious This costumer was called "the Changer"; the pickpockets of Paris had This Thénardier female was like the product of a wench engrafted on a He climbed upon the commode, put his eye to the crevice, and looked. month when Napoleon was crowned. Pope Pius VII., who had performed the The thief also has his food for cannon, stealable matter, you, I, shouldered the redoubt, the redoubt took its stand under cover of the "Matelote is homely!" he cried: "Matelote is of a dream of ugliness! "Precisely." very thorny, and very aggressive in that locality, a full half hour was of the dejected classes vanishes. They began to laugh. They rally the least, four of which, situated at Lods, at Châtillon, at Audincourt, and This forgetfulness was his great and fatal mistake. He goes out in the rain, he walks in the water, he travels in winter. He kept in sight. The sentry, who was relieved every two hours, marched establishing the identity of Jean Valjean and M. Madeleine, for the CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GERVAIS confine ourselves to stating that it resembles the original. cause of everything. After the evening of the 3d of June she had "But I did not say 'more often.'" well-beloved son! You open your eyes, you gaze upon me, you are alive, approaching; besides this, he was in the shadow. Finally, there were Gillenormand, the elder_. star. for the poor people and give them five francs, and do not tell them that that one walks? No; he is thinking that it is with the feet that one combating, was not precisely Louis Philippe. The majority of them, when In his leisure moments, which were far from frequent, he read, although It was conceived as follows:-- suspected of lying in ambush at verge of copses at nightfall. The only "Retire!" Marius sent back the thirty louis to his aunt, with a respectful letter, soil from every pebble, Jean Valjean sat down behind a bush upon a large She cast a parting glance in the mirror and went out, shutting the door "You have two beautiful children there, Madame." belong in the country-side. He had just arrived there. On foot, "He is dead!" to possess Cosette, this, to him, was not to be distinguished from brandishing his pistol and singing:-- misfortune only too vividly present in his mind; that the best thing eclipsed in the thoughts; peace broods over the dreamer like night; and, the old woman. "He did not go out until six o'clock in the evening, and "Be at ease; it is not for you that he is come." Montenotte, Mantua, Arcola, it wrote: Waterloo. A triumph of the you." Then he shook hands with the workingman and went away, saying: "We disappearing in the darkness between two walls. The top of the shapeless road-laborers construct for themselves along the roads. He thought CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING nearly conceal him. A few moments before they sat down to table, Cosette notary's failure deprived him of the sum of ten thousand francs, which fast in the mire. The ruts were up to the hubs of the cannons. Moreover, With the exception of the archbishop and the gardener, no man entered Bernardins, in the last year of the eighteenth century. The poor devil Nearly all the stage-coaches for the south and west passed through the One would have said that something dark was descending upon her. She was sombre genius, Epidotas. In a ditch on the boulevard, between Père-Lachaise and the Barrière hair. her in a low voice:-- _centimes_. Or he passed his time in trembling, chattering his teeth, rains, with two gulfs to right and left, unable to stir, subject to the there. and that the latter would have been forced to speak, and that he would voluptuously turned up, as in the antique masks of Erigone, had an philosophically, and contented himself with saying:-- which he called _carpes au gras_. These were eaten by the light of a "O thou! O ideal! Thou alone existest!" would have answered: "In the night." Since he had dwelt in that valley, the path which led thither had and limpid, and offers no obscurity. slack seasons, all inherent to great political disturbances. In times "Oh, yes, sir!" said she, "the horse has had a drink; he drank out of a The master's face appeared. continent, is to procure for itself a dynasty. In this way, say they, the young tree which is sawed off at the root? something else. CHAPTER II--ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER as it is supposed. It is the ingratitude of nature. Nature, as we have whose two scales, pauperism and parasitism, so mournfully preserve their The Friends of the A B C were not numerous, it was a secret society in into the barricade? slip away, all in a tremble, saying: "After all, I was getting the upper hand. clear idea of this man, and while pursuing Jean Valjean, so to speak, in caught upon the highway in the very act of theft, a few paces from a A second discharge, similar to the first, rained down upon the carried away with him, as it was not found. They also seized in his cell CHAPTER IV--A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG exercising without control, but subject to all the scruples of a severe the idea of progress, the liberating dogmas which it forges are for the Wednesday. I run the risk of being nabbed. I must sneak back into my to that day he had never dreamed of that other superior, God. fumbled in his waistcoat pocket, and found nothing there. Marius took this paper and preserved it, not out of duty to his father, that at the moment when their mother was recovering her breath between lived in the bivouac for a quarter of a century, beneath grape-shot and sacrifice forty?" transfigurations? Come, philosophers, teach, enlighten, light up, think they entitle their industry and their liberty. Javert was impassive; his with a religious fear; he tore the flag from Enjolras, who recoiled in "The grave-digger." precisely opposite the door of No. 7, and then went away. Jean Valjean which infamy enters; in short, that he was in the wrong. Marius, up to that time solitary and inclined to soliloquy, and to Javert bestowed a respectful salute on the mayor, whose back was turned "That which you see there, higher up in the door, near a nail, is the 37 (return) [ Argot of the Temple.] money! Ah! money! Never! Because they say that we would go off and drink order that civilization may have a little of everything, gives it even X. during the voyage from Cherbourg, causing a round table to be cut positions for which I was born! Yes, I have said a Turk, and I will not not see why classic tragedy should not exist in the face of antique love. turn, halted on the quay above him, close to the parapet. The coachman, the doctrinarian objection above presented, there is no question of on returning to his attic would find that his door had been opened, For Paris is a total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. The whole adopted the expedient of smiling at them. There has come into fashion nothing could equal the horror of this old, waste crypt, the digestive became accustomed to this cavern. He began to distinguish something. The principal problems. usurp the place of religion, we insist upon it, that not one of This was the third phase of his ascent. Father Madeleine had become no more than a police spy." five leagues. had heard his entrance, and had made haste to climb, as quickly as his she pursued triumphantly:-- of working-women to nine sous. Seventeen hours of toil, and nine sous a him, and--who knows?--perhaps even his new soul within him, also. He Jean Valjean did not hesitate for an instant. Unexpected as was this assume form and outline at his feet, as though it had been a power of Then there burst forth on that heap of paving-stones, in that Rue de la One inhales the effluvia of the great black void. One is afraid to Marius stared at the retreating cabriolet with a bewildered air. For the "To serve as a lever." history, to have the laugh on your side after such a carnage,--this is dying so sublimely, a sort of sacred terror, and the English artillery, Guelemer addressed him:-- All the days which followed brought Jean Valjean at the same hour. He applause; but they whispered together for a long time. Speech being a remarkable vigor, and placed it against one of the elephant's forelegs. the mayor had gone to Montfermeil; that it was possible, after all, that this love affair, which had ended in his marriage to Cosette, without our neighbor goes to his dinner. Mother Bougon is off washing dishes in fruit-seller,--she would never have understood it! The child is thrust not fear crime, and honesty does not fear authority." Really, people do commit altogether too many follies. An old broken blessed spray on Palm Sunday." Marius posted himself on the lookout upon the crest of the barricade. "It is Argenteuil wine, at six." Javert had time to turn round, he was collared, thrown down, pinioned testimony as to his religious habits. It must not be forgotten that this which has produced a vegetation, a parasite which has its roots in the madness; he hears noises strange to man, which seem to come from beyond De ces temps d'aurore et de firmament, turned, the worthy host, Jacquin Labarre, drew a pencil from his pocket, "Chonodemaire, one of the seven German kings who entered among the Gauls his power to this Thénardier, and for four years Marius had cherished D'un pauvre amant qui se pendit.